South African ‘Superman’ achieves impossible dream
|(CNN)There was a time not so long ago in South Africa when people like Siya Kolisi weren’t supposed to captain the country’s beloved rugby team.
Even a career as a professional sportsman seemed a lifetime away for a young boy growing up in the township of Zwide, Port Elizabeth.
“For me, things that we dreamed about were being a taxi driver or doing things that I’m not supposed to be doing,” the backrow forward tells CNN World Rugby.